Hello Alan,
 BB>> Track on shows no requests from the pentium.
 AF> That helps in showing not that the pentium isn't transmitting, but
 AF> that the server isn't receiving.
     I trust the server is ok. The problem is not cabling or frame type.
 AF> we are quite surprised that the 386 can communicate with the server
 AF> without the NIC being configured on the server side!
     Yeah :-) I'm beginning to think the SCSI or the NIC has a ROM
     that is loading these things.
 AF> I'm not familiar with the AUTOREP file, but that's likely to be
 AF> where the missing information comes from.
     I have looked in AutoRep.nlm with List.com. It is a "3rd party" util.
     No .lan or .nlm that involves the hardware is mentioned within.
     Here's more...
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  Usage:   LOAD AUTOREP    
  Where volume is the name of a Netware volume that should be
  Vrepaired if the volume fails to mount. The process is repeated
  until either the volume is mounted or until 20 retries on the volume
  repair is attempted, then the next volume is tried and so on.
  If you have any feedback or improvements I am contactable via Compuserve
 
       Author:            Jason Hart
                          Melbourne, Australia   CompuServe 100033,3202
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Regards, Barry 
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